Brillant video mate

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Lol the crews Wi-Fi is anchor2021!

We had many trips like that in those days on the Orry & The Lady,surprised the Tin Can was allowed out in that weather!

Now the MV Sporades Star, still sailing in the Greek Islands in 2022. Quite a history.

I travelled on the St.Eloi when it was nearly new and operated train ferries to Dunkirk. By the time it was bought by the Steam Packet it had seen better days, but the SP did a good job in refitting it. It could handle rough seas better than the current Ben but had problems in getting into Douglas harbour. I sat in Douglas waiting to board it one day, only for it to abandon entry when it was only a few hundred yards from entry into the harbour. It went all the way back to Heysham.

So lovely that ship, I remember taking my family on it to the Isle of man, not once but a good few times wish them day would come back

I loved this ship;was an engineer on her for 2 years.

Hi - do you own the copyright on this and do you have footage without a watermark?

I thought the Seacat was great! Was a bit dodgy during rough seas but great still!

Alan Albiston.........Dear Lord what an idiot

My Dad’s last ship before retiring from IOMSPC

The most beautiful ships of the Manx fleet. Could never be replaced

Lovely

Fantastic . Every inch a Lady she was

Happy days. Days when the I.O.M.S.P. had a fleet worthy of the name and their vessels were as reliable as clockwork whatever the weather.

Someone had bird seed for lunch all i can ere is chirping ...

Sister was the monas queen worked on them all great times

Very Close Arrival & Departing of King Orry & Seacat

Pãnågia Sõumêla / aka Lady of Mann 😢

Only happy memories of this boat! There's some rather splendid footage of her taken last year here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqCoXomGbadrnKM I think I've read recently she's been sold again.

She wouldn't get 10 feet now the channel as been let go to wreck and ruin

Bult in Scotland?? Alisha ship building in Troon rings a bell. She had a sister boat also built by the same company, sadly she was no where near as reliable as the lady of mann

Very sad. Sailed on the lady many times. Reliable & comfortable. She could be fast as well. Nothing like the rubbish they have today.

yes this ship was great - before ben my chree (this ship had cabins on A and E deck - if you was disabled - i think had to climb the stairs to cabins) and very small lift but on ben my chree - modern cabins (two disabled cabins on same deck)

Lovely trip down memory lane. I have never used the Sea Cat, seeing that footage I'm glad I haven't. I never had a bad trip on King Orry. I took to flying from Nottingham after they sold her. The Ben-My-Chree doesn't look as homely to me and family say it's not. My holiday always started when I stepped aboard. Fly is just like using a bus, not nearly as much fun.

The king orry used the enclosed gangway.

never went on these newer ships.... was aways in love with the little cunarders... orry, man, maid lady tinwald ect....such a shame no footage of these old steam ships seem to exist. my great grandfather was a crew member of the 1906 viking.... wonderfull ships. there a £140,000,000 rollover this week.... if its me i'll comision lairds to rebuild one off the old plans for all of you

Devastating that she's been scrapped. IOMSPCO need another vessel to make trips like these more frequent

Always second the Lady of Mann in stormy seas but an absolute trooper nonetheless. Seeing 3 vessels in the harbour at once is a thing of the past. :(

yes it's scrapped now

rip king orry. it now is in the moby lines fleet moby love

Excellent footage sadly shes long gone now !

I sailed on the King Orry in a strong gale. She handled it very well unfortunately though when we arrived at Heysham and commenced our turn in the harbour we collided with the Merchant Bravery which was berthed at the neighbouring link span.

LOVELY DAVE ! WE LOVE OUR HISTORY AND OUR HERITAGE THE TRAMS ARE ALL A PART OF OUR LIVES IN BLACKPOOL KEEP TAKING FILMS OF THEM !

Excellent nostalgia thanks for posting.

I am sorry that they did'nt have camcorders back in the 60's. So i could've seen the last trams running in Glasgow, as i just missed the last one to run. The Glasgow city Council were going to bring the trams back to Glasgow, but it never happened, due the fact that Scotland got it's own parliament.And it was'nt in their best interests to give Glasgow tram cars.

Wooooow! Brill, Id love to see a Manannan on that!!

According to some sources she is about to be scrapped in greece.Is this true ?

Never went on the king orry was it a stable ship.I have heard lot sof stories that she didnt cope well in rough sea.Is this true?Sailed on seacat isle of man a few times,great in nice weather but very unreliable in bad weather.

Great steam packet nostalgia !

12 CYLINDER Pilestick diesels!!!............love it!!

An unforgetable night, glad I was there on 627

This is a fab model

why is there an enclosed gangway? :)

seen pics of her the other day looks nothing like the lady anymore a shadow of her former self

this is all made out of paper!!!

except for the traffic it hasnt really changed has it.Great video !

The model of Douglas port is so amazing! I ve always wanted to do something like that!! GREAT WORK!

the Fleetwood end of the line being upgraded & should be ready for easter 2010 or maybe later after that we'll see the new super trams in oparation in Fleetwood